What do you think that HTS's former glory was? Was it this or this? Retrospection blindness can cause things to seem more awesome than they truly were, besides I think you have insulted most of the members here by trying to return HTS to its former glory. If you want to revert stuff to it's former glory pour nitric acid on your computer and let the elements be returned to their former glory. ( I do not actually suggest this) Otherwise, start talking about progression; the way in which you say things can have a big impact on the way people perceive them despite them being very close to the same thing.

A broken clock is right twice a day, however, I am neither up that early nor up that late...

The long and short of it is this: For as long as I have been coming here there have been derpsters derping, turning up promising the earth and then disappearing. If you're gonna do something do it, if not, try to refrain from spamming the shit out of the forums and focus on achieving whatever it is you want with considered and concise questions / comments. It makes reading the forums a much nicer experience for all of us. (There are more of us than the 10 or so people that regularly post you may be interested to know, and we all read the things you write and we all form our opinions based on those things.)

Nitpicking my words.Point is I'd like HTS to be as popular and as robust as it was at its prime.I would consider that to include modernizing the site and improving or bringing back things that dont get much attention, like the Zine or the Redmine site etc.Also a less dated Java IRC would be good.

Sending the Zine regularly to registered users on a mailing list would probably help there.Embedding a different IRC wouldnt be (as far as I know) very difficult.The only difficult thing might be reprogramming missions and IRC bots, if you even need to.

A simple improvement would be moving the navigation underneath the banner, and creating a modern left-aligned banner.

lol why would you make a new one?HTS didn't even make the one they have now.Some guy named Phillipe DeTourney did.Also, when I get back from vacation I will actually put some time into at least attempting to redesign the navigation.

From what I can tell the problem is actually getting people to visit the site, not stay on it.Strange statistics.